10.2.0.4. We plan on upgrading to 11gR2. (solaris 10) I saw some bugs pertaining to 10.2.0.3... Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: Grzegorz Goryszewski [mailto:grzegorzof@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 2:45 PM To: Patterson, Joel Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: cursor: pin S wait on X W dniu 2010-11-09 20:26, Joel.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx pisze: > This question is somewhat associated with my lsuosstats global area latch > question recently posted. > > We were running a load test and so many of the queries where probably doing > the exact same thing. So the event "cursor: pin S wait on X" which bubbled > to the top. > > > From Tanel Poders web site: "A mutex differs from a latch in that there > > would be many more requestors backed up on a latch, whereas a mutex in this > > case protects just one cursor." > Since this was a test, I am assuming that this is nothing to be concerned > about now, but if I were to become concerned about it, does anyone know how > they could approach this event specifically? Is there anything we can do > about it now - because we are testing? Hi, which database version You talking about ? There was some bugs related to that mutex . Regards. Greg -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l